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Immediately upon finding this photograph I was draw to my mother. I couldn’t help, but think of this picture I took of myself in January and couldn’t believe the resemblance between the two of us–her dark hair and eyebrows, distinct cheek bones, hair identical in style, and even wearing an outfit I might wear today.

If I have my math right, and I’m certain I do, my mom is 30 in this photograph (or days from turning 30) so I’m a few years older than her. I’d be celebrating my seventh birthday in this picture if my mom was 35 and it occurred to me more than before the way our lives mirror each other. She was here once, living the life I live now–young family, small kids. I imagine if I read her journals from those years she would share some of the same worries and concerns, have the same sort of dreams, and long to be the best wife and mother she could just like me.

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